Without Pressure a Diamond Will Forever
Remain a Piece of Coal

Pressure can come into our lives in many forms. However most often pressure comes in the form of stress.  We stress about our finances. We stress about our children.  We stress about our job, and about our significant other.  Some of us even stress about being stressed.  Too often we allow the pressures of living to imprison us.  Why?  Why do you stress about things?  Why do you circum to the pressures of life?  When has stres...

Sylvester

I come from a town with

6 traffic lights and a train

My thick thighs

Round backside

Dark brown eyes

Get me smiles in this town

6 traffic lights and a train

Too often on my brain

Is all the pain

Days of bumble bees

Water hoses and dogs

From these trees

My people use to hang

Its wild right

6 traffic lights and a train

Fourteen years later

Still crying for Pam, Robert, and Mayo

Gone too soon

Too soon forgotten

In my mind class of 99 will forever live on

Cotton fie...

Sitting here cold and alone

Thinking of the loves that came before you

Wondering if this is really the end or

Will others follow you

These feelings I have I can no longer keep inside

Stewing while the outside dies

My tears at night you pretend no see

The sounds of my heart breaking

Echo between the sheets

But your attention I still seek

Though my love for you is different

My feelings of inadequacies are same

Talking to you gets me no ...

While sitting at my desk observing the chaos I call a job, I had this thought, “You cannot make orange juice if all you have are lemons.”  As soon as I had the thought I realized the magnitude of it all.  This is where I am going to head this week.  The thought for the week is……

“You cannot make orange juice if all you have are lemons”

First let’s discuss “orange juice”.  Orange juice is really good for the human body.  It is a great source for Thiamin, Potassium, Vitamin ...